File No.__________________
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
FORM U-57
AMENDED AND RESTATED
NOTIFICATION OF FOREIGN UTILITY COMPANY STATUS
Filed Under Section 33(a) of the
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended
TERNEUZEN OPERATING COMPANY B.V.
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(Name of foreign utility company)
The AES Corporation
1001 N. 19th Street
Suite 2000
Arlington, Virginia 22209
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(Name of filing company, if filed on behalf
of a foreign utility company)
The Commission is requested to mail copies of all correspondence relating
to this Notification to:
William R. Luraschi, Esq.
The AES Corporation
1001 N. 19th Street
Suite 2000
Arlington, Virginia 22209
Lynn N. Hargis
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
1200 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20036
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This notification amends and restates, in its entirety, an earlier
notification filed on February 23, 1996, by Destec Energy, Inc. with respect to
Terneuzen Operating Company B.V.
Item 1
The name of the entity claiming foreign utility status is Terneuzen
Operating Company B.V., a Netherlands private limited liability company ("TOC"),
the business address of which is Herbert Dowweg 5, "Postbus 161", c/o O&M
Superintendent, NL-4542 NM Hoek, Netherlands. TOC will operate, on behalf of
Elsta B.V. & Co., C.V., a Netherlands limited partnership, a facility that will
generate and transmit/distribute electric energy to be sold to Dow Benelux N.V.,
a Netherlands subsidiary ("Dow") of The Dow Chemical Company. Any electric
energy not sold to Dow will be sold at wholesale to two Dutch corporations, N.V.
Delta Nutsbedrijven ("Deltan") and N.V. Provinciale Noordbrabantse Energie
Maatschappij ("PNEM"). Set forth below is a description of the facilities to be
operated by TOC for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric
energy for sale:
TOC will operate a cogeneration facility (the "Facility") located next to
Dow's chemical manufacturing site in Terneuzen, Netherlands. The Facility
shall have a nominal 405 megawatts of electric capacity. The Facility's
design consists of three high efficiency combustion turbine generators with
a nominal power output of 126 megawatts each. Each combustion turbine
exhausts through a heat recovery boiler to supply steam for an
extraction/induction full condensing steam turbine-generator capable of
producing an additional nominal 90 megawatts of electrical energy and
providing a minimum of 350 metric tons/hour of steam. The Facility will
also include an associated 50 kV transmission line and related substation.
All of the voting stock of TOC is owned by AES Global Power Holdings B.V.
("AES-GPH"), a Netherlands private limited liability company. All of the voting
stock of AES-GPH is owned by The AES Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
Item 2
None of the companies referenced in Item 1 has any domestic associate
public utility companies.
No state commission certification is required under Section 33(a)(2) of the
Act in connection with this transaction.
SIGNATURE
The undersigned company has duly caused this statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
By: /s/ WILLIAM R. LURASCHI
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William R. Luraschi
General Counsel
The AES Corporation
1001 N. 19th Street
Arlington, Virginia 22209
(703) 522-1315
Dated: October 24, 1997
